From the article: Late For Work Excuses
Employees come up with many interesting, amusing excuses for being late for work. What is the best, most amusing excuse you have heard? Best One You've Heard?
vet visit
- I was a supervisor at an old job when I got a call from an employee (who was always late Sunday morning...hung over). She said she was going to be late because she had to take her neighbors cat to the vets because it was sick.
- —Guest Dan
Sad But True
- I've had several embarrassing excuses for being late. One cold day I ran out to warm up my car while I waited in the house. Unfortunately my truck has autolocks that engage when the truck is running. As soon as I closed the drivers door I heard the thunk of the door locks. To add insult the door to my house closed behind me locking me out of the house. I sat in the freezing cold for about an hour until the locksmith arrived. I couldn't even look him in the face. Another incident happened due to frequent air travel. The altitude changes tend to damage you eardrums. One morning after a yawn my eardrum popped. I immediately lost my balance and fell down the stairs. No one believed my excuse. During a business trip in Madrid an impatient motorist attempted to pass in the safety lane. There wasn't enough room so he decided to make some by slamming into the rear quater panel of my rental. We wound up on an exit ramp slugging it out. I wound up with a busted lip and a torn shir
- —Guest earachemyeye
elevator
- once a guy was 3 hours late to work and he said, "Sorry I got stuck in the elevator."
- —Guest wow
Run Away!!!
- I called my boss one morning to tell her I was going to be late... There was a bear in the dumpster next to the car! I even have photos of the visiting bear when he tipped my freezer over but missed the shot of him sitting on my back porch! At the time I lived in the city....well Anchorage, Alaska if you count that as a city! My other one was called in one morning late because there was a moose between me and the car! Yup! Both are acceptable excuses in Alaska for being late to work! Especially if you bring in pictures of the critters in question!
- —Guest Sue
game lover
- I was discussing with my boss about something officials while one of our staff came to office at about noon. When asked by my boss he simply replied that he was seeing game of his favourite team in TV!
- —Guest Sudhi
Shocked
- An employee called in "Got hit by lightening and cant come in"-in the background you hear her boyfriend "Get up honey, we'll be late for work".
- —Guest jonb
Still Drunk
- While at college, I had a job at the technology helpdesk. That place was notorious for at least one person calling in each day. My favorite story to tell is something that happened to myself. Like a good college student, I went out partying on a Friday night. I didn't work till 6pm but when I woke up, I was still drunk!! I emailed my managers stating this fact and how I wasn't comfortable being at work in that state. They had a good laugh at that and told me don't let it happen again. Needless to say, I kept my drinking to a manageable level in the future!
- —Guest DrunkInDecorah
Seriously!
- I work in health care. A nurse assistant who was always calling sick, called in to say she couldn't come to work because she had a yeast infection. Another nurse assistant I worked with would show up for work but usually leave soon after she came. She told me one night she had to go because the kids were at a city recreation center and they had a fire so she had to go pick up her kids. This happened to me. I lived in a house that was on apower grid that lost electricity at least once or twice a month. I had put my car in the garage and couldn't get it out because the electric was out and I had locked the only other door to the garage and couldn't find the key. I had to take a taxi to work and eventually showed up, but I was really late for work. I'm sure they didn't believe me,but its true.
- —Guest Jane
I broke my shoe...
- The heel on my shoe broke on the way to work so I had to go home to change shoes.
- —Guest George
I'll just leave anyways!
- My sis was in charge of scheduling at an establishment for a few years and there was one employee that was particularly ridiculous with her excuses. She would ask for literally every weekend off for her "softball games", even though she agreed when she took the job that she would work 2 weekends a month. If she was denied? She just wouldn't show up on that day. She also called in at least once a week to say she'd be a few hours late because she was dealing with wedding planning issues. How that girl never got fired is beyond me!
- —Guest KiKi
Misadventures
- I stopped giving excuses about a year ago, but I still haven't even worked a full 8-hour day in a long time. I skipped out for an entire week once by saying something to the affect of, "We were four-wheeling in the middle of nowhere and bottomed out. Had to camp out for the night and walk to the nearest highway and flag down a state trooper. The statie drove us to the nearest town to get a tow-truck, but we're stuck here until they get the new part in." When I told the "story," it was way more elaborate. Epic misadventures are kind of my thing.
- —Guest Knotty K
approach the bench
- I had an employee call in that they had to go to court and could not make it into work. I asked if this was jury duty. "Probably for someone but not me" he said.....Still waiting!!!
- —Guest Deb
Must have
- Co-worker came in 30 minutes late one day and her excuse.. "I must have hit all the lights".. There were 3 lights between her place and work
- —Guest Bob
International Pancake Day
- A co worker replied that she was late for work because it was International Pancake Day and IHOP was serving fee pancakes
- —Guest Kathy
birthdays ... pfft!
- someone phoned in once saying it was their birthday and they had to open their cards, he was an hour and a half late.
- —Guest britt
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